YouTube FAIL
UPDATE at 3:45pm: Well, that was fast! YouTube has unfailed our vids. For now. We’ll work with them to get to a long-term resolution on this.
tl;dr: YouTube banned us. But now we’re back. Until we are banned again for reasons we don’t get.
Original post: This is why the YouTube videos are not working at the moment:
At 2pm Pacific today, YouTube terminated the FAIL Blog account for our “Community Violations”. In all cases, we posted videos that were in line with what we had seen on YouTube. Heck, we’ve seen far more gory and far more offensive on YouTube. Prior to the termination of our account, FAIL Blog was the number 1 watched channel on YouTube this week. (Yes, even more than Britney’s channel.)
Despite our repeated requests from YouTube for better definition around what would be considered violations over the last several months, we were never informed. The two violations we received were on videos submitted by the users involved. And in either case, no one was hurt and as far as we could see and read, none of it violated YouTube’s stated community guidelines.
We’re going to do all we can to unfail our standing with YouTube and in the meantime, find other ways to bring you the FAILs you demand and deserve.
Don’t get us wrong, we love the ‘Tube. It’s just that we’d like to see better communication and service when it comes to dealing with their most popular channels.
If you do know someone at YouTube who could help us with this matter, please email their contact info to: failpictures+tubehelp@gmail.com
Unfailingly yours,
The FAIL Blog Team
FIRST
this is the closest i’ve ever been to the top :3
No Im… 3rd Dammit
you people need lives and a name change
also you are not damn first you are no 227
FIST!
Fist?
yep, your mom is i pain.. :/
failblog sucks anyway
So you are here why?
to be ironic
baba o’riley FAILED!!!
I MEAN AVIS!
Troll is troll is troll…
FAIL
gotta pay the troll toll
to get into this boys soul
Yay Its always sunny!
Well here’s hoping we can get them back! Those videos are GOLD!!
FIRST!
Nope.
This qualifies as a Troll FAIL!
first
Oooooh sorry, it stopped being funny 2 firsts ago. Better luck next time.
No, it stopped being funny after the first time anyone ever posted “first” on any forum, anywhere, ever, at all. Now it’s just inane, childish, and unoriginal. Who cares if you’re first when you have nothing else to say?
First?
second?
Third?
FAIL.
I think that people getting mad about it keeps it going. If everyone just ignored the person as if he didn’t exist for the ENTIRE discussion wherein he said it, then it would probably stop. I haven’t seen ‘first’ on Youtube in a while, actually . . . .
lolz….. awesome pwnage
Dat SUXXORZ!
Pfft.
Just post them in another place and update posts.
Takes some time but youtube looses business and why should you care about that? Too bad for them.
Try vimeo
that too is in the plans. but serving 1.2 million streams a day is quite expensive for anyone…
There have been 2 fails that I found in poor taste. So I asked that they be removed or click on a link to see. Soooo I don’t see why YouTube has such a problem with you guys.
I second the movement to Vimeo. I like them.
please no vimeo
computer without flash + vimeo = fail
iphone + vimeo = fail
youtube= TOTAL win
…Youtube uses Flash as well
Grammar fail: looses.
I think you might mean loses.
looses=FAIL!!!!!
For those that may have been wondering if the fine people of FailBlog pay attention to what gets said in the comments, it would appear that they do. They are always watching.
rather like santa claus
we’re not trying to creep you out. but yes. we do watch.
Kinda like me… -stares-
Pfft. I think it’s adorable that you think you’re creepy.
*smooch on the tip of your nose*
*STARES*
Looking to be entertained, pumpkin?
where do I leave the milk & cookies? lol
wait a second… the moderator… is from ICHC?!?!?!
& here you guys had almost convinced me that the sites were only loosely associated
We get comments from the failblog guy too. I just find it funny that cheezburger doesn’t type in lolcat lingo.
(Psst…Failblog guy is a Failblog girl. *grin* )
Eeep, no wonder she asked to borrow my bra. I thought she was just a crossdresser. Talk about embarrassed.
Bullshit. There are NO girls on the internet.
Rule 15.
…I’m grateful
So why don’t you delete all the childish “FIRST” comments from all of the 6 year old children?
Maybe even a bot could do it?
Every comment section starts with a message that usually says just one word, “First”, followed by all of the comments on what an idiot that person it.
What a waste of time by a bunch of children.
You can have a several page thread just on who was first and who was not.
But then we wouldn’t have so many people to mock and ridicule.
What about enslaving children to delete silly childish posts?
good plan
however, is it wrong for me to find a certain sort of charm in the barrage of “firsts” and failed firsts, and nagging comments? it’s becoming comfortably familiar, and i’m beginning to think that i would feel something was amiss if they were completely absent…
It would indeed seem odd if there was no sign of the silly “first”s to be annoyed by. Paradox, perhaps? I’m not good with paradoxes, but I think this qualifies. The whole not wanting them but finding an odd sense of home with them.
First.
@Watching???, the pointless comments are the whole point of Failblog – much more fun than the fails, and much too witty to be the work of six year olds (even mine). Sense of humour FAIL?
A lump of coal for Christmas. Thanks a lot, FailTube.
Or should it be “YouFAIL”?
hail lube
ScrewTube
FAILTube
nope, it shoud be jewfail
eh, they seem to be working ok for me
What are you talking about? The youtube failblog channel is still up…
http://www.youtube.com/user/failblog?ob=4
It’s working for me too…
same here!!
If I wasn’t already boycotting Youtube tomorrow for the Youtube Blackout Dec 19th – 21st, this would have pushed me over the edge.
IZA FARKING BOULESHITE
it’s kinda funny how everyone who is calling for a youtube boycott posted their blackout videos on youtube
YAY! Boycott FAIL
Understanding of Concept Fail
Well it appears that failblog has committed the worst sin of all in the great country of the united states. A crime that must not go unpunished and should never be overlooked. That crime is freedom of speech.
I have been offended for a moment by some things on failblog or the lol family of sites (political commentaries in bad taste and the like) but for the most part these things are all in jest and should not be removed.
As far as I have seen there has never been a copyright issue with failblog and their postings… youtube is most likely removing it because of their stance on some issue that fail or an affiliate has touched on in the past, and not for any violations that may have occurred.
Goes to show that freedom of speech is great as long as everyone says exactly what you want them to say.
Keep up the good fails, I say talk it out with failtube for a few days and after the holidays switch if they are not going to fix it.
You do realize that free political speech in the US is different than a company (Google) exercising their right to do whatever the heck they want to on their servers, right? Google/YouTube’s servers, Google/YouTube’s rules (whatever they are) … If YouTube were owned by the US government, then you would have a valid point. COMMENT FAIL.
Actually I was referring to their supposed advocacy of freedom of speech. Youtube had claimed that as one of the things their site offered for a long while, even in the face copyright laws for some of its users.
The comment I am making here is freedom of speech, only if you agree with me.
booboo fett, learn to read. I mentioned politics as a means for them to be offended and take an adverse stance to one of their more popular users. Not to say that they are somehow connected with the federal government and part of conspiracy or anything like that.
While they are not connected to a government agency the ones who banned failblog may have been McCain/Bush supporters. Yes government agencies and companies are different, but they are both made up of people.
It is obvious you just wanted to post “COMMENT FAIL” on something since you missed the “First” comment and wanted to make you miserable life seem a little bit more significant in some other slightly less retarded way. Thanks for trying.
Maybe Obama supporters. After all, he was the guy with the truth squads silencing dissent!
And yeah, learn what the state action requirement is.
Wrong site.
Ok..ok…. …let’s connect dots. YouTube is a division of FoxEntertainment (? last I heard) which is owned by Rupert Murdoch who is a big Pres. Bush supporter…….. hmmmm……. maybe much simpler……..FailBlog has ADS ……and if I click on FailBlog’s ad I’m not clicking on the identical ad on YouTube….. ex. Vat19 (cool stuff)
I MEANT that what’s-his-face up there, in the green avatar should go to Pundit Kitchen if he wants to talk politics.
You mean Howser, the guy who was talking politics and to whom I was merely responding? Political discussion for me but not for thee, eh? Go away.
I wasn’t intending to start a political discussion, but the lol sites share the same rep, if someone down at failtube wants to harass pundit kitchen, but cant because they dont post videos, then harass fail instead.
That is all I was saying, moot point now though with the fails rolling again anyways.
YouTube is owned by Google, dude. So the first dot in your psychotic connect-the-dots adventure was false. EPIC FAIL
good stuff, howser. i’m with you on this one- destroys my faith in the Tube!!!
epic fail.
also, they should have a repeat-video shortcut so i can listen to music without having to pull down my windows and hit replay. that would be cool, eh?
Freedom of speech isn’t an action, it’s a right. You can’t freedom of speech. You can EXERCISE freedom of speech, of course. Howser doesn’t seem to get grammar.
He also doesn’t seem to get that YouTube deciding to take something down from its private site does not impact free speech in any way, since it’s not a compulsory government action restricting speech.
Does Howser think that when he refuses to read someone’s book, he’s restricting that person’s freedom of speech? FASCIST
The thing is, that most these videos are on youtube anyways. They didn’t remove the other copies of the videos.
Maybe Youtube did not like Failblog adding its own logo (“as seen in Failblog”) to other videos already in Youtube (???, I just trying to guess)
People SEND Failblog those videos…. They don’t TAKE them. Therefore the “copy Right” (Which there usually is none because most are home videos and news clips and what not) is surrendered. You have to CLAIM work. and PUT (c) on it for it to be your Copyrighted video. I don’t see many home videos or newsclips that put (c) This video is property of “ABCDEF” or FBI WARNING or anything.
to hell with youtube, use liveleak instead. They don’t pull things for stupid reasons.
Also, I’ve never seen anything on failblog that comes close to any of the gore i’ve seen on youtube. just look at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOiWaTSypt4&feature=related
warning: second half is REALLY graphic
Ever considered it might be for constantly stealing other people’s videos?
By using the word «stealing», are you referring to posting something already on teh interwebs ? Because I’d hate to have you as a judge deciding my fate in court if you were…
Must have been the couple of videos that didn’t have their logo on em.
“failblog fails at youtube” LOL
youtube blackout/BoyCott December 19th, search it
YouTube–YouFAIL!
suxor…
…or what?
failblog profile still shows fine for me on YT…
can still view all the vids too…am i missing something?
YT failed to banninnate failblog properly!
Strange thing is, Failblog is still on Youtube… Failblog fail.
*facepalm*
Guys…did you try reading the message up there at the top?
Especially the parts that say, “We’re back” and explain how YouTube has unfailed the vids for us?
we’re supposed to figure that out with a broken (tl;dr: ) code and ill-formatting?
continuity of writing fail.
Well, right up at the top it says,
“UPDATE at 3:45pm: Well, that was fast! YouTube has unfailed our vids. For now. We’ll work with them to get to a long-term resolution on this.
tl;dr: YouTube banned us. But now we’re back. Until we are banned again for reasons we don’t get.”
I dunno…I just don’t think it’s that hard to “figure it out” when they just come right out and tell us, but maybe it’s just me…
And this coming from a guy that thinks tl;dr is html code.
Tee hee!
tl;dr…sorry what?
=P
um yeah so reading comprehension self ownage roks.
sorry i suk at teh interweb…like my cussin darrel.
now back to your regularly scheduled nonsense.
Hee…!
It stands for “too long; didn’t read”, which is why the Failsters summed it up for us.
*gives ~AR a cookie*
*knocks on classroom door*
Scuse me, I’ve come from Humo(u)r 101 with this
*SQUEEZE*
*Departs through the secret hatch in the stockroom (We all knew they had them really even though we never found them)*
Why not switch to Blip.TV? Better resolution than YouTube (at least until YouTube went HD) and I think nicer people.
Stupid two-faced YouTube. One of the main reasons I come to this site is you get relatively safe amusement. As long as you don’t read the comments.
I’m sure Viacom had something to do with it.
They hate everyone on Youtube.
so use Yahoo video instead, screw the tube if it wants to ban you
Mebbe itz cuz videos of people getting hurt and such haz no intrinsic entertainment value?
(I like failblog, but skip the videos every time).
Comments by people who use txtspk have no intrinsic reading value!
As for the videos, they’re my favourite posts.
gawd!that bites!i’ve watched all the failvids,and i don’t remember seeing anything with adult content,or anyone getting bullied.i think youtube just has their panties in a twist over copy right infringement…and that this site is waaay better than youtube
the reason you were banned is because you take other peoples videos, put your stupid little logo on top, and re add to Youtube. That is copy right infringement, which not only is against Community guidelines, but against the law also.
lolz? didn’t know home videos and such already posted on youtube had copyright and were against the law linking them on your page or reuploading it. i dont remember seeing anything that could be copyrighted on failblog like the thousands of movie clips and stuff that are already on youtube. you guys just think that everything is copyrighted now just because you didn’t upload it to the internet first
by default anything self made and uploaded to YouTube is by default copy righted unless it is released under a creative commons license.
You know you have to apply for a copyright, right?
No, you have applied for a copyright to DEFEND a copyright in court, generally. The “poor man’s copyright” – sending a certified package to yourself with the content inside – doesn’t usually hold up too well.
So you can still own the copyright for something without registering it…just don’t be surprised if someone takes it, and you find out you have no way to defend your ownership.
have to have applied, too.
Whoo, sleep-deprived grammar fail.
Copyright knowledge fail, redundancy win.
dude, stop saying “by default” it makes you sound kinda pretentious, no offense intended… just comes across that way when i hear it
You’ve got to be kidding me.
How about paying YOUTUBE for hosting them and then paying for the download bandwith? FREE? watch them on youtube then.
WOW, you’re slow. Did you not realize that people have to submit a video to have it on Failblog? Which is an action that must be taken on purpose by the submitter, not Failblog? If the original maker didn’t want their video to be reused, they should take it up with the submitter, not with Failblog, which just compiles all submitted videos to make it convenient for surfers.
Screw YouTube! Last week, they took down a video of mine for copyright violations. It was a video of me reading a story I wrote over photographs that I took.
Right (C)
I wish you guys would stop using YouTube to host your vids cause YouTube is lame. There are plenty of other video sharing sites that will happily take your traffic.
Also, I know a number of people that can’t enjoy all of the content on your site b/c YouTube is firewalled at their place of work.
My suggestion? Drop YouTube. Stupid fascists…
Will not happen as this is a free server… was a good sponge though…
Can I has Frzt?
damn
I found this great Free Rider 2 site that everyone can join! Just google up “Free Rider 2 Popular Forums”, and it’ll be there !
OH, Failblog got banned by YOU TUBE…
funny….
Huh… want comes around goes around…
Watch (users comments) or not. Anything not breaking a law and not spitting out hate or profound language, the subimtting party should not be beaten up by the, hummm
Failblog, support crew, support team – owners? (wanta be’s)
I pass on their logic here.
Sorry guys…
I got excited when I saw that the ”Crew” was laying low and ment to use
”Profane” – MY BAD – probably the last post before this address is banned by failblog.
Thank goodness for gmail addresses!!!!! what’s next hummmm…
user cookies……. FUNNY STILL……
Oh, and by the way…
You can get your own website address registered for – say 10 bucks – and point it to a FREE service – say wordpress address (this one)- and collect on all of the site hits…FUNNY… Keep clicking the links and paying for the 10$ registration fee…. hummm. it cost me 10 bucks? I make 10,000… seems like a good profit margin since I don’t have to PAY FOR THE YOUTUBE BANDWIDTH.
You know, you keep on commenting…
And every post just falls a bit short of making sense.
Maybe English is not your first language? Hopefully?
agreed, pet. please, please don’t let it be his first.
You guys should use Vimeo, its vastly superior to youtube in every way imaginable!
they seem to be running just fine at the moment
Boycott Youtube on the 19th-21th
Nice way to make an allusion to older fails (21ST. . .)
FYI – putz’es – no pay – no play…
This site is toast, unless management takes a firm step and starts contolling the HUMMMM crap that is spewed by the HUMMMMMM hourly users that don’t have a day job (life) or can screw their boss and play on this site while pulling a paycheck (screwing their company) during regular work hours, and pays for the stuff YOU DOWNLOAD. ECO 101
MY BAD but your blaiming the wrong party…
The question is…
Why doesn’t FailBlog pay for what you receive?
*gives Yang a Xanax, a beer, and a prozac for tomorrow*
Sorry, but that was totally expected.
I get up and actually go to work and do a real job tomorrow at 4:00 AM central.
Want me to give you a wakep call? Forgot…… ”CREW”
What’s a “wakep” call? That sounds like it could be interesting.
I don’t think that will help, Dragon, but nice try. The early a.m. group are so much more pleasant, aren’t they? I’m outta here. (btw – I’ll have that beer since Yang isn’t paying attention. Thanks.)
It’s all yours, Judy…enjoy!
*pops the top* Ahhhh! Smooth. *settles down to watch another ‘House’ rerun.* Thanks, Dragon! Have a nice evening!
I guess someone else should pay your bill?
MyBad, but you no pay, you no play….
FailTube is nothing but fails. With their new policies, their new layout, it’s nothing but a webfail.
I’ve seen videos on youtube that verge on pornographic.
But everytime someone gets their own huge amount of advertising youtube decides to go NAZI BITCH and shut them down.
Like every major website out there, they squish you like bugs.
One more reason to participate in the youtube blackout.
look
YouTube just sucks. That’s all there is to it.
just another way the man is keeping us down.
youtube sucks anyway. case closed.
i do believe that the issue here has nothing to do with the content of the videos.
it is re-upping versions with the “failblog.org” stamped on them.
i know that i have seen nearly all videos posted on failblog on youTube. they’ve all been “around” a while”.
usually a “watermark” on a video implies ownership. it’s a way for the originator of the content tp take credit, and can prevent ‘bootlegging’ copies in the case of tv networks.
so watermarking ‘failblog.org’ on videos can be mis-interpreted as this website’s “original content”, of which it clearly is not.
i’m sure removing the watermark and just embedding the videos straight from youTube would solve it.
Maybe…if the videos didn’t ALSO have the YouTube logo.
To be fair I always thought it was a bit tasteless for failblog to grab videos from youtube and upload them to their own channel without linking back to the original videos.
What happens, see, is someone posts their video on youtube, then submits it to failblog, who then puts their logo on it & posts it on failblog. Failblog doesn’t troll youtube looking for funny fails… If you notice, every failblog post has a “submitted by…” tag after the picture/video.
Youtube is way too corporate
That really stinks, i love Youtube but honestly it’s gotten too picky about content. Viacom is being silly about things too, like i had several fan videos on a youtube account that i worked on for several hours only to have account suspended for copyright infringement. it’s gotten way too crazy.
try metacafe .quality is higher and they are not as full of crap as you tube
WTF YouTube?
I read failblog simply ‘cuz I like it. Screw google and their youtube crap. In my opinion, failblog stands on it’s own!
The readers like to laugh at the silly crap that is happenin’ in life & pretty sure this is the best place to get it!
Party on, failblog!
Always a devoted reader… (and hopefully one day, submitter!)…
Signed,
Fan of the ‘not very friendly’ opossum…
Oh… how about a “FAILTUBE” T-shirt???? ;-D
Use Dailymotion…
I bet Brittney bribed YouTube to ban FailBlog so she could be number one viewed channel…
leave brittney alone!!
Yeah, leave Brittney alone. It’s all Britney’s fault.
Google’s support is pretty awful too, especially dealing with Blogger (which is why I am now with WP). Seems as if both organizations are keen on wanton banning. I had a blog with Google for my workplace (a library), that was marked as a “spam blog” for all of the three links that were on it! I was up against a deadline and couldn’t get a soul to help me fix the problem. Fail.
Oops…I realize both Google and YouTube are part of the same monster… but I’m not sure if they have different support teams, with all the good they (don’t) do…
first
you so funny
MY humor is for me and me only stop taking it…
Google : The cancer that is killing the internet.
Youtube is going through censorship laws. Im boycotting them for 2 days
That looks photoshopped. Failblog would never use that font.
Well, I feel I’ve learnt a few things about YouTube in the past ten minutes! And I get the feeling they suck. Boycott huh?
FIIIRST!
yeah, Youtube does that…gives ban to users for no clear reason. Major Fail on they’re part for that.
First! ha ha suckers….oh….damn
Last!…ha ha
This is awkward.
switch to vimeo!
They hate you because you embed videos rather than linking to the site, I guess: rather than making them money you cost them by having their servers used by the thousands or whatever visitors to this site without those visitors viewing the ads the folks over at YouTube are selling.
No, they hate them because all Failblog does is: find videos on YouTube where bad things happen to people, download the video, add “As Seen On Failblog” in the corner, and then reupload the video under their account.
It’s pretty much the same crap that eBaum’s world gets called out for all the time.
dude, read the comments above you before you post.
I was banned from youtube also. I never got an answer as to why and I haven’t bothered to set up another account.
I know why. I remember all those naughty videos of yours. If you had at least shaved your legs you could stand a better chance.
You want better service? Don’t deal with a company owned by Google.
Mmm, I agree with the other people reccommending Vimeo. It’s creamy and better looking. Why mess with the massive shitvat that is the ‘Tube?
even when restored this is one of t he reasons i am part of the boycott XD
Youtube’s censorship has gotten quite out of hand. I think people who rely on video content need to stop supporting them, and bowing to their arbitrarily puritanical controls over content distributed on the internet. There are other video sharing sites that have wholly open policies. And considering that failblog embeds all of its youtube videos onto their website proper, they would suffer little disadvantage by going elsewhere for their hosting.
Exactly. Youtube fails. There are many other alternatives that should be promoted by people who appreciate freedom of speech.
I fux wit Fail Blog, take your videos over to another free video hosting site like vimeo or something. Do something because I love to watch people FAIL.
thinkingbutyallcanreadit.blogspot.com
“In all cases, we posted videos that were in line with what we had seen on YouTube.”
Did you really mean this as it reads? Thats like those morons that say, well, I know I was speeding, but I had to “keep up with the traffic”. The videos were within the TOS or they were not.
Why not just move to VEOH.com ?
They are less tyrannical and allow higher quality vids nor do they downgrade the video quality, as youtube does.
It’s not surprising, especially since Failblog steals videos and doesn’t give any credit to the original uploaders. They deserve it.
If you have such a bad opinion of Failblog, get off the site.
I know exactly why it got suspended….I think I do anyway (uploading too many videos in too shirt a time period). same thing has happened with at least two other accounts that I know of in the past.
EPIC FAIL! HA HA HA HA HA.
maybe try Google video lol. Veoh.com? isn’t Veoh getting money from companies that might not like all the juicy copyrighted videos on the site? so sweet to be able to download in high quality
It’s good that Failblog gets banned from YouTube.
Only 15% of the videos are “positive” laughers. The rest are all violent.
The issues you have with YouTube are symptomatic of all the Services/Sites Google has been snapping up lately. Try getting customer service on Feedburner and you’ll see what I mean.
This isn’t the first time something like this happened, atleast you got your video’s back, but this did not happen for a guy called Athene, quite popular amongst World of Warcraft’ers. He basically had a very popular channel that was more popular than YouTube’s corporate partners/business bullshit, so therfore they removed ALL of his vids, simply because he had the most views and was number one for a week or something. You can probably find it if you google it.
That’s all
this will teach you fail ppl never to steal another vid again
Lesson FAIL.
Try Webcastr
I found this post while searching Google to try to find out how to get you kicked off YouTube. I guess you were already but somehow you’re back? Oh well, I’ll keep trying. If you’re wondering why, it’s because all you’re doing is taking other people’s videos and re-uploading them with your logo. Real tough to become popular by doing that. Pricks. Go create something of your own instead of stealing from other people.
GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!1one!!oneone!!1!!
207th. fuk u fuk me
Yes use DAILYMOTION!!!
First!
Test
Dailymotion.com
why is it still down?????
Fail YouTube. Use Vimeo. Way better.
dam youtube….looks a conspiracy.
good luck to you guys @ failblog!
Probably cuz of the copyrights, violations of humanity, but what the hell! YouTube has all that crap.
that totally sucks dude youtube u r a big failure lol
Im posting on an old topic